Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I find the NBC coverage of the long jump at the Rio Olympics frustrating. The landing area is clearly marked off in meters, but the announce...

Yesterday, I updated my list of base-12 pluperfect digital invariants (PPDIs) on my Web site . An order-9 PPDI had been omitted from the ...

Originality can be an elusive thing. I had been planning to write an essay about the candidacy of Donald Trump and the James Thurber short s...

The 2016 presidential race is certainly unusual. Both major candidates are widely disliked. One is distrusted by many, though the other seem...

While driving around town today, I found myself behind a car with a North Carolina license plate. For many years, North Carolina plates ha...

I’ve heard a couple of odd locutions on NPR in the last few days. One of these was on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! . The odd phrasing was part o...

My original 16 proposed Episcopal Church advertisements have proven popular. Readers have suggested copy for additional ads. Although I lin...

Gritting my teeth for over an hour, I listened to Donald J. Trump’s acceptance speech last night. It was notable for what Trump pledged to d...

Three days ago, I wrote the post “ Never Trump ” after reading Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece about Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote the bestse...

When I matriculated at the University of Chicago as a physics major, I had no thought of joining a fraternity. Had I considered it, I would ...

The Republican Party officially nominated Donald J. Trump as its presidential candidate last night. Reasonable, well-educated people thought...

Black Lives Matter is a fine slogan, born of a spate of murders of young black men, largely at the hands of white police. The slogan was ne...

No, the title of this post isn’t a mistake, though it is true that I am not a big fan of the last Republican president. Both President Obama...

I’m listening to (and sometimes watching) the interfaith memorial service being held in Dallas, Texas, for those police officers who died la...

Gun violence in America has reached epidemic proportions. All Congress has been able to do is to offer prayers and moments of silence. Not o...

I had not intended to embark on a campaign for gun control, but, since the massacre at the Pulse nightclub on June 12, I have written two es...

I cheered the sit-in in the House of Representatives led by Representative John Lewis yesterday. I was particularly delighted with the DYI l...

The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette carried the full-page ad shown below on page A-12 of this morning’s newspaper. (Click on the image for a PDF ve...

Gun control advocates regularly assure gun owners that they only want to tighten gun laws; they do not want to take people’s guns away. Thi...

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